Cartridge-belt.



Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

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CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1918. 1,288,264.

EDWIN BALL STIMPSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CARTRIDGE-BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed June 21, 1918. Serial No. 241,269.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN BALL STIMP- soN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Belts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to machine gun cartridge feeding belts.

In application Ser. No. 233,553, filed May 9, 1918, and application Ser. No. 234,512, filed May 14, 1918, cartridge belts formed of layers of paper and attached together by means of metallic fastening means tak ng various forms are shown and described. The layers or strips of paper thus made use of to form a belt are brought into direct contact at the points where they are held together between the spaces reserved to provide the cartridge holding loops. It has been found that, if the strip members can be arranged in a spaced apart relation with respect to each other, the sharp angular bends produced in the strips by the presence ofthe cartridges in the loops is much less pronounced and, in addition, the insertion .of the cartridges into their places in the loops is greatly facilitated.

. The principal object of the present invention is accordingly to provide a cartridge belt of this general type in which the folds or layers thereof will be separated from each other for the purposes indicated.

With this andother objects in view, the main feature of the invention resides in the provision of a cartridge belt formed of layers of material such as paper, attachedtogether at suitable intervals to form cartridge holding loops. and in interposing between the layers at the points of attachment spacing members for holding the loop forming strips in a spaced apart relation with re spect to one another.

Other features of the invention will be hereinafter referred to. i In the accompanying drawing, in which alnumber of embodiments of the invention are illustrated,

Figure 1 's. a face view partly broken away, of a section of belt embodying a pre ferred form of the invention. Fig. '2 is a sectional view taken along the line of 1. it

Fig. 3 is a face view of a section of belt showing another form of the invention- Fig. 4 is a face view of an enlarged section of belt showing the use of still another form of the invention and showing another form of fastening means.

Fig. 5 is a face View of an enlarged section of belt showing still another form of fastening means.

Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of a preferred form of spacing member for use in the device. V

In Fig. 1 of the drawing there is shown a partly broken away section of cartridge belt embodying the invention, in which two strips of flexible sheet material 1 and 3, such as paper or fabric, have interposed between them at suitable intervals to form cartridge holding'loops, separating or spacing members 5 having a substantial thickness as in dicated in Figs. 2 and 6. In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the strips or layers 1 and 3 are attached to the intervening spacing members and to each other by means of the eyelets 5, one of which is placed in position near each end of the spacing member. and correspondingly near one of the lateral edges of the strips.

The spacing members are preferably formed'from cardboard and are soshaned that their opposite edges ,follow the contour of the adjacent cartridges when they are placed in position as in Fig. 1. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the strip mem bers 1 and 3 forming the sides of the belt are spaced apart from each other even when there are no cartridges in the loops. so that the operation of inserting the needle of the loading machine between'the belt strips in each loop is greatly facilitated.

Still another function secured by the use of the spacing members is that of so stiffening the belt that it will not coil up laterally and interfere with the loadi g operation i crease the amount of lateral deflection of the .belt strips that is required to form the cartridge holding loops 11. as is indicated in Fig 2 of the drawing. It will also be noted in this figure that opposite edges of thespacing members are directly engaged by the car- 3 a thereto, spacing members of substantial attach said strips to the intervening spacing thickness interposed between said strips at members along the reinforced portions.

suitable intervals along their length to form Signed at Brooklyn, in the county of cartridge holding loops, said spacing 1ne1n Kings, and State of New York, this 14th 10 5 here being Wider at one end than the other, day of June, 1918.

and metallic fastening members arranged to EDVIN BALL STIMPSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

